That’s what I’ve heard. Not being much for comicbooks I really only know him from the online rants and that Captain Peck-Merica illustration, which jeez, I think would have Rock’s space-future Superior Officers asking to have it toned back.

Back in the early 90’s, Liefeld was king. Seriously. That’s why he got handed so many books. It was like everything he touched became popular back then. But, like most popularity, it was short lived as people slowly realized how stupid it all was.

I mean, he’s who created both Cable and Deadpool, and he was a founding member of the Image Comics group. It’s not like he didn’t do any popular stuff in his day. His peak popularity just didn’t last more than a few years.

It’s funny because I personally find Kierra Knightly a pretty mediocre actor who basically only knows how to brood, tantrum, and clench her teeth. Which upon reflection is pretty much all you need to play Cable.

On my last flight, my chosen attire was cargo pants with 6 pockets, a hoodie with 3 pockets, and an Oxford shirt with 2 pockets, because fuck having to check an extra bag for my stuff.

This turned out to be a terrible, terrible idea when I had to try and find my phone in all those pockets to update my wife, only to forget where I put it 3 minutes later and have to look through every damn pocket again.

I can’t do storage pants they keep trying to fall down on me regardless of how much circulation my belt cuts off. I tend to stick with an oversized driza-bone coat that I’ve had so long that one of the pockets has started coming loose

If you use construction-style suspenders (or a shoulder holster), you can wear a belt fairly loosely and the suspenders (looping through the belt, after all) will carry the load. To fashion police saying “no belts and suspenders,” I respond “shoulder holster. With handgun. Go away.”

I’ve always wondered how Liefeld imagines the thich pocket belts to work. Does he expect the characters to constantly flex their leg muscles to keep those belts up? They’re always placed where the thighs are the thickest too, rather than above the thickest of the muscles. I’m surprised no one (especially Deadpool) didn’t just grab a thigh pouch and yank it down to trip an opponent.

They’re attached via a combination of high friction material (probably some kind of rubber) and pressure. If you can make those things with enough friction resistance then you’re pants are more likely to tear off than the pouches slide off. Also, it could be part of the pants.

I always figured that the pouch belts attached to Velcro spots sewn on the tights.

Liefield: “You like Batman’s utility belt? Heck, I can make characters wearing 6 utility belts!”
(Or he ripped the concept off the character of “Tarantula” (from All Star Squadron) wore lots of pouches in his brown & black outfit). He had storage pouches on his boots (rattle rattle jingle all the way with a Spider-Man grapple gun that preceded the existence of Spider-Man.
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Rob Liefield has a knack for taking impractical tacky ideas and ramping them past 11 on the 1-to-10 scale until they were amusing again.

I personally knocked them because it was Rob Liefeld’s fix for drawing tricky part o the anatomy of the characters he was drawing. that being said: you made it work by making the belts symmetrical as opposed to that jumbled mess that made no sense from most standpoints. Of course either Cable or Rock could have just gone back 5 minutes in time to find the keys, but then of course it’s the principle of the matter. I’m sure Cable would see that as giving up.

Go back in time, find the keys, put them somewhere really obvious (e.g . First pouch Cable checked) so that they can find them, so they no longer need to go back in time, so they don’t move the keys, so they can’t find the keys, so they go back in time…

I remember a story where Deadpool had a rummage through his pouches and found something that reminded him of a bet he’d made with another kid back in school(but who he hadn’t seen since), so he set out to find the guy and make good on it.

haha my friend lost her entire phone in a pocket…there was a tear and it slipped between the lining and died. She thought she had been pickpocketed. It took 3 days to find that phone, hidden inside the back.

Ah, but this is where the wonders of having tons of pockets inside and on the outside of the bag comes in. And extra pouches (bag tidies?) you can swap between bags, and hold different things – one has my medication, one has a sewing kit and spectacle repair kit, one has my dice and gaming gear, one has teabags, disposable handwarmers, and condoms (you do not want to get those mixed up), one has a spare battery pack plus cables for charging my phone, etc. I can mix and match as appropriate. for the occasion.

If you like pockets, check out 5.11s. They are very pocketful, even the more “streetwear” styles, and they come in women’s and men’s. If it doesn’t have at least one magazine pocket, it’s not 5.11s. They also tend to last a really long time,which is awesome.

Originally the pockets were made to keep pocket watches in, now more commonly they’re referred to as change pockets. Well, at least the people I’ve known.

When I was a kid I asked my dad and he called it his change pocket… effective to the point that whenever we went to the swimming pool… change EVERYWHERE, cause he forgot it was even in there XD I mean, c’mon, keep it in your purse- cue him telling me he had a wallet not a purse.

Nowadays I have wallets with change pockets X3

As for the pockets (getting back on topic) prefer to put small things in them that I need to keep handier, sometimes change, sometimes keys, sometimes pens… so whatever you want them to to be honest. ^^

I see people take the piss out of the 90s comics just as much as the silver age ones, and they tend to do it more freely. Plus with the silver age there’s also this reverence to offset it, which the 90s doesn’t get

Been waiting to see Cable – is there any chance of his teenage AU counterpart, Nate Grey appearing? Because honestly, either grumpy teenager Nate – who could function as Cable’s Jared – or slightly odd Shaman Nate could prove hilarious.

The trick with multiple pockets is tactile tagging. Put something in the pocket or discreetly on the outside that makes that pocket feel Odd to thet ouch and you will always rememeber what is in it. From a piece of tape to elastics anything can help.

You can never have enough pockets. That is honestly my biggest complaint with most women’s clothing the lack of useful friggin pockets. So tired of buying jeans with pockets that do jack shit. I could careless about showing off my damn ass.

Ok, my sister has been complaining about this for ages, and everytime I tell her the same thing. ‘If you want pockets that badly, stop buying the stupid jeans with the uselesd pockets, then get your friends to do the same and spread the word. Cause if enough girls only bought pants with actually pockets, people would make tight fitting jeans with deep pockets.

I think at a certain threshold, a certain density of pockets collapses like too much density into a singularity, breaching the layers of reality and poking a hole into the dimension where lost socks vanish to from the dryer, and loose change is exiled to from between couch cushions…

Yeah, I got a ScottEVest a year and a half ago when I accepted my old light jacket needed to be replaced, and I love the pockets so much I just wear it year-round (It’s the “tropiformer” so I can take off the sleeves during the summer).

Unfortunately my actual encumbrance limit is low so I can’t just carry *everything* I could possibly want without getting a sore back. But all my cables and adapters and bits and bobs are stored away and I can’t even lose my headphones because they’re threaded through the lining from my breast pocket to my neck.

Many pockets and big purses cause the same problem. This is why I had my sister give me a Deadpool lanyard for my birthday- hook it to the purse strap or wear it around your neck and the keys can always be found!

Their may come a day when an article of clothing has “too many” pockets. But that likely won’t happen until we have infinite pocket dimensions in our pockets, at which point the number of pockets beyond one is both irrelevant and silly. You already have one unending space to search for your car keys in, why would you ever need two?

I once saw a jacket that had six big pockets, two breast pockets, two inside pockets, and two stomach pockets. And the inside both had a secondary smaller pocket inside them, and the stomach pockets had those as well, along with a sideways hand pocket like on a hoodie that was placed beneath and to the side of the stomach pockets. And then, there was a smal pocket on the inside abouy the colar bone that was made to hold an ipod nano. It was a grand total of 13 pockets, which when paired up with the equally rediculous cargo pants I had at the time, made a grand total of 25 pockets. I could hold practically any number of nerd equipment whilr walking to my friends house, and still have my hands free to play my game boy.

They is called uniforms. Here’s an 8-pocket version (not shown is a hoodie-style pocket in the back, accessible both left and right handed, with a zipper on each side (where your police guy/girl would have their handcuffs and assorted ziplocks to contain their prey)). Added bonus these things are all but indestructible; I’ve worn one for 15 years before it literally (literally-literally, not the other kind) came apart. And this from somebody who will regularly tear against an overgrown hedge or building facade to make space for the family of 17 coming past the other way.
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Theoretically, wouldn’t Cable be from the same military as Commander? He’s a super soldier from the future also… Okay, sure he’s a mutant infected with a cybernetic technovirus, fighting against the literal Apocalypse, but still…

Cable isn’t one generation into the future. As a baby, he was infected with a disease, and his quantum-half-sister took him into the far future to find a cure. That future was ruled by Apocalypse, so Cable grew up fighting against him, and eventually came back to the present because it’s apparently easier to stop a powerful megalomaniac with designs on world conquest than it is to stop a more-powerful megalomaniac who has succeeded at world conquest.

The hard part is when summer comes, and suddenly it’s too hot to wear your storage clothing. Where am I going to put my MP3 player and speakers and keys and spare snacks and flashlight and phone and writing implements and more snacks and chapstick and spare change and backup snacks and Kindle and stuff?! Not in these so called “Cargo” shorts!

You know it occurred to me only just now, but after searching all his pouches, he still has storage space in his prosthetics. At least, according to some comics and cartoons, he can open up his arm and leg to store or interface with things.

I feel like you should just continue this comic for another two strips and showing Cable still searching for his keys and Commander getting increasingly exasperated. By the time he finds them, Commander has WALKED to his destination and back.